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[[folder: Unique]]!!Unique[[quoteright:291:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/303693_264680976983760_1585520192_n_6076.jpg]]--> Ever since I was a kid, I would play this game where I pretend I was a different person, the person where I dreamed to be. The real me. I even have a different name: Unique.-->'''Played by:''' Alex Newell-->'''Voiced by:''' Míguel Ángel Ruiz (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/MutsumiTamura (Japanese)

Legal name Wade Adams. A transgender student from Carmel High, and former member of Vocal Adrenaline. While normally shy and introverted, she's created a female alter-ego for herself named Unique who represents everything she wants to be. Transferred to [=McKinley=] for a less pressuring atmosphere and naturally joined New Directions.

* AscendedExtra: From a two-episode guest starring role in season three, to a regular in season four.* BecomingTheMask: Invoked. Unique is just an alter-ego, but as a trans person she would like that to become her true persona (or at least the female portion of it).* BlackBestFriend: To Marley.* DancingBear: Vocal Adrenaline used her like this. Most of the focus during her time there wasn't about her singing so much as her gender and how much of an inspiration she was.* DefectorFromDecadence: Left the rival show choir team of the first three seasons to join New Directions.* {{Expy}}: Of both [[CampGay Kurt]] and [[SassyBlackWoman Mercedes]].-->'''Unique:''' Kurt Hummel, Mercedes Jones, Unique worships the red carpet you walk on. If you two had a love child, it would be Unique.* IJustWantToBeNormal: After she performs spectacularly at her Regionals competition, she's made into a role model for basically every transgender, queer, or just plain different teenager in America. The stress of it gets to her and she almost leaves in the middle of Nationals.* LargeHam: As Unique.* PromotedFanboy: Alex was one of the runners-up on ''Series/TheGleeProject".* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 5.* RealityIsUnrealistic: Some viewers take issue with the name "Unique," thinking it more fitting of a DragQueen than a transgender woman. It might not be a ''common'' name but it's not unheard of for a black girl.* SatelliteCharacter: You could argue that Unique is the "new Tina."* SassyBlackWoman: As Unique.* SecretIdentity: Katie.* ShrinkingViolet: When not Unique, "Wade" is so timid that not even Jesse channeling [[Film/FullMetalJacket Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]] is enough to make her raise her voice from a whisper. * SixthRanger* TheCameo: Made an appearance in the final season episode "Transitioning", helping Coach Bieste as he made his own transition from female to male. * ThirdPersonPerson: Unique does not have ''time'' to refer to her gloriousness in the first person, fools!* TokenGoodTeammate: She was the only member of Vocal Adrenaline who was kind and civil towards New Directions (except Sunshine, but we all know what happened there).* TokenMinority* {{Transsexual}}* TwoferTokenMinority: Black and trans.* WhatCouldHaveBeen: She did not appear in "Dynamic Duets." It would have been interesting to see what Unique's superheroine persona would have been.** FridgeBrilliance: She didn't appear in the other episode because Unique IS her superheroine persona. * WholesomeCrossdresser

A new student at [=McKinley=] in season 4. She wants to be a singer and has tremendous talent, but struggles with insecurity based on being the poor daughter of the lunch lady. Played by Creator/MelissaBenoist.

* {{Adorkable}}: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Kitty.* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She goes after Jake in spite of being explicitly warned of his womanizing ways literally seconds prior.* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: Her mother's name is Millie.* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Inverted. It's Marley's mother who goes out of her way to distance herself from her daughter in public, so that Marley can have a chance to make friends.* BerserkButton: Making fun of her mom.* BreakTheCutie* CompressedVice: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] In "Glease", Kitty manipulates Marley into making herself vomit in order to maintain a healthy weight. Even though Ryder talks her out of it at the end of the episode, a conversation with Kitty in "Dynamic Duets" reveals that she's still doing it and by "Thanksgiving", she's apparently begun using laxatives as well.* DeadpanSnarker: For an [[TheIngenue ingenue]], she can dish out the snark with remarkable skill when the situation calls for it** While Kitty is giving her speech in the "Left Behind" club, Marley asks Jake if being half-Jewish means that he'll only ascend to Heaven half as quickly. It's not especially pointed in snarking terms, but her tone suggests that she finds the whole thing just a bit ridiculous.** She gets a much more pointed (and satisfying) example when Bree cracks a joke about her twerking in Season 5:-->'''Marley:''' [[SarcasmMode Good one. You're hilarious. Like Comedy Central funny.]]* DisappearedDad: Her father was not mentioned once. * EverybodyKnewAlready Sam soon catches on that Marley's clothes just have name brand tags sewn on, since his mom did the same thing.* IJustWantToHaveFriends* InnocentBlueEyes* {{Irony}}/SelfFulfillingProphecy: She puts so much pressure on herself not to let down the club that she ends up doing exactly that.* [[NiceHat Nice Cap]]* NiceGirl* PluckyGirl* PowerStrainBlackout: At the end of Gangnam Style. High energy dancing and Bulimia are not a good combination.* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 5.* RavenHairIvorySkin: Lampshaded by Sue when she's dumbfounded on how [[TheUglyGuysHotDaughter the obese and homily lunch-lady is her mother]].* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The reason she didn't came BackForTheFinale is because Melissa Benoist is busy with ''Series/{{Supergirl 2015}}''.* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/{{Supergirl 2015}} Marley Rose is one of Kara Zor-El's alternate universe doppelgangers]].* ShadowArchetype: She could have been Rachel's {{Expy}} due to her role being very similar to the latter's. They even shared a duet with in her first episode - albeit she's in Ohio, while Rachel's in New York. However, she doesn't hog the spotlight as much and is more interested in being a pop singer than a Broadway actress.* SheCleansUpNicely: As Victoria Beckham and Karie Perry.* SkewedPriorities: "I'm so hungry, but at least I fit into my dress." And yes, it's every bit as disturbing as it sounds.* TakingTheHeat: She confesses to Ryder that she's the one who pretended to be Katie so he won't find out it's really Unique. It's not a "crime" per se, but the spirit of the trope is there.* TemptingFate: During "Thanksgiving", a famished and sleep-deprived Marley says during her inner monologue that she isn't going to let down the team. Guess what happens during the sectionals...** Again in "A Katy or a Gaga": Jake, in an effort to assure Marley that he genuinely loves her, comments that if he just wanted sex, he could get it from any girl in school. Marley angrily responds "So why don't you go sleep with one of those girls then?" He does.* TooDumbToLive: Believes she is getting fat because she's having trouble fitting into her ''Film/{{Grease}}'' costumes (because Kitty is altering them without anyone knowing) but the fact that she could fit into her normal clothes, or hasn't bothered to weigh herself didn't set off any bells. * TheIngenue: She fits this trope more than any other female member seen so far.** She's so pure that ''Sue'' can't even make fun of her; she praises her to hell and back. ** She herself [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it in "Sadie Hawkins" by saying that she always tries to see the best in people.* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Her mother is the obese and homely lunch lady. Lampshaded by Sue.* TwoFirstNames

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[[folder: Jake Puckerman]]!! Jacob Puckerman[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Jakefdgsdfg_401.jpg]]--> Half-brother. Our dad's like an NBA player, there could be 50 other Puckermans running around Ohio.

Noah Puckerman's long-lost half-brother who comes to [=McKinley=] in the fourth season. Like his brother he has a wonderful voice but also an extremely troubled upbringing and bad attitude. Played by Jacob Artist.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Even more so than Puck. It is later established that he is half-Black.* AntiHero: Starts as a bit of a selfish {{jerkass}} who's only in the club to pick up Marley. Eventually he opens up and becomes a lot nicer.* ButNotTooBlack: Mixed race - his mom is black, his and Puck's dad is white.* ChivalrousPervert: In "Britney 2.0", it is shown that he cuts class to watch the girls during gym.* CombatPragmatist * CompositeCharacter: Aside from his brother, he's also an {{Expy}} of Finn. Will trying to convince him to join New directions is very reminiscent of the former goading Finn in season 1 (minus the planted drug, of course). His LoveTriangle involving Marley and Kitty also mirrors the Finn-Rachel-Quinn[[note]]Fittingly, Marley and Kitty are Rachel and Quinn's respective {{Expy}}s[[/note]] triangle in the inaugural season. * CoolShades: On "Glee, Actually".* CuteButTroubled* TheDanza: Jake is played by Jacob Artist.* DontYouDarePityMe* {{Expy}}: At first glance he's very similar to Puck, even though he says otherwise.** As noted above, he's also similar to Finn. CompositeCharacter indeed.* HairTriggerTemper* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Being mixed, he deals with prejudice for being too white for the black kids and too black for the whites.* HeroicBastard* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Ryder. They initially fight and are not in good terms due to both liking Marley, but thanks to Finn's assignment in "Dynamic Duets" they start getting along better and become good friends.* HiddenDepths: Takes dance lessons. But don't tell anybody.* HotBlooded* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Defends Marley's mother from bullies.* LonerTurnedFriend: Due to the above-mentioned HalfBreedDiscrimination, he doesn't really have any friends until he joins the New Directions.* LongLostRelative: Puck's half-brother whom Puck does not know about, though Jake comments that their dad got around so much there's probably 50 more Puckermans out there.* MoodSwinger: Goes from adorable crooner to stage-trashing jerk in the blink of an eye.* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 5.* RebelliousSpirit* TwoferTokenMinority: He's half-Black half-Jewish.* YourCheatingHeart: Slept with Bree as of Episode 4 of Season 5 because Marley wouldn't sleep with him.[[/folder]]

[[folder: Ryder Lynn]]!! Ryder Lynn[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/RyderLynn_8533.png]]--> I don't understand. All I do is study. I haven't even seen Dark Knight Rises yet!

A football player who's struggling with his grades due to dyslexia. When looking for the perfect [[Film/{{Grease}} Danny Zuko]], Finn scouts him out and encourages him to join the school musical. Played by Blake Jenner.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Marley chooses Jake over him.* AlwaysSecondBest: He feels this way because while he does have his talents he's not particularly good at any one thing, be it football, dancing, or schoolwork. In "Thanksgiving", Jake lets him win the Gangnam Style dance solo just so he can feel like he won something.* BookDumb: Though not for lack of trying. He studies twice as hard as everybody else but still only pulls a C-. This is because he is dyslexic.* DoggedNiceGuy* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: He was molested by his teenage babysitter when he was eleven. Though the show treats his and Kitty's later confessions as tragic, Sam and Artie consider his to be "any teenage boy's dream".* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Beiste comments that Ryder's a sweet kid, but isn't the best football player. Cut to him breakdancing in the end-zone.* {{Expy}}: Of Finn. Fitting, then, that Finn is the one who recruits him into the musical, as well as Sam, with the actions and learning disorder which is ironic as Sam was the original Finn Expy.* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jake. They initially fight and are not in good terms due to both liking Marley, but thanks to Finn's assignment in "Dynamic Duets" they start getting along better and become good friends.* IronicName: "Ryder" and "writer" are oronyms... and he's dyslexic.* LIsForDyslexia: Actually portrayed very realistically.* MeaningfulName* NiceGuy: The first thing he tells Marley after introducing himself is how awesome her mom is.* PromotedFanboy: Blake Jenner was the winner of the second season of ''Series/TheGleeProject''.* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 5.* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: He feels this way.* TwoFirstNames: Lynn is commonly a first name.[[/folder]]

[[folder: Kitty Wilde]]!! Kitty Wilde[[quoteright:257:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/KittyWilde_9431.png]]--> You do not want to break up with me, okay? I am like a bad Carrie Underwood song once I get going.

Sue's new [[AlphaBitch head bitch]] in season 4, and she certainly lives up to the title. She is initially bitter towards the Glee Club, yet she joins after the performance of Grease. By the time season 6 rolls around she's gone back to the Cheerios thanks to Artie dumping her and the other alumni forgetting that her and her friends existed. Played by Becca Tobin.

* ActorSharedBackground: Becca Tobin has real-life cheerleading experience, cheering in middle school. * AlphaBitch: Her official title from Sue.** LovableAlphaBitch: She's gradually grows into one midway through the fourth season, which is later helped by her relationship with Artie.** As of the Season 6 episode "Homecoming", she regressed back into a full-on AlphaBitch, due to her bitterness towards Artie over their breakup and feeling abandoned by the rest of the Glee Club. She gets better after she decides to rejoin.* TheAtoner: "Previously Unaired Christmas" suggests that she went through a phase of this after her HeelRealization. Included in her atonement was denying herself a chance to play the Virgin Mary in a live-action Nativity Scene put on by the school, at least until Marley and the rest of the club convinced her that she should. * BitchInSheepsClothing: She pretends to be Marley's friend, all the while playing on her anxieties about getting fat like her mother, secretly altering her costumes for the school play to make her think she's gaining weight and leading her to use laxatives and skip lunches in order to stay thin. By the end of "Thanksgiving", Marley collapses at the end of her performance. Kitty finally tells her about this during the lockdown in "Shooting Star".]* CardCarryingVillain: In "Guilty Pleasures".--> '''Brittany''': So, Kitty, everyone at school hates you because you're a two-faced lying slut who no-one can trust.--> '''Kitty''': [[CrowningMomentOfFunny True.]]* TheCheerleader: She's part of the Cheerios.* CharacterDevelopment: Was initially a very mean AlphaBitch who came to actually like and care about Glee club.* CommutingOnABus: Was absent from Episode 14 of Season 5 until Episode 2 of the final season.* CompositeCharacter: Despite Sue Lampshading her being an expy for Quinn, she's more like a composite character for the Unholy Trinity. She fullfils Quinn's role as the blonde mean girl and Sue's [[TheDragon Dragon]], her insults more closely resemble Santana's, and she has dance skills to match Brittany's.** Further, she is a distillation of the Unholy Trinity's worst attributes. Quinn's manipulative nature, Santana's caustic personality and Britney's airheadedness.** She actually is kind of a teenage Sue.* CryingWolf: She gets a minor dose of this in "Tina In The Sky With Diamonds", when the rest of the New Directions refuse to believe that she didn't put up the campaign posters supporting her candidacy for Prom Queen. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]:-->'''Kitty:''' Why does no one believe me? *{{beat}}* Oh right, habitual liar.* DisproportionateRetribution: She manipulates Marley into developing an eating disorder all because she believes Marley is responsible for Jake breaking up with her. (Something that is, in truth, entirely her own fault.)* TheDragon: To Sue.* EasilyForgiven: Leave it to [[TheIngenue Marley]] to be unable to hold a grudge against the girl who talked her into a potentially life-threatening eating disorder.* EvenEvilHasStandards: ** She absolutely ''hates'' the new AlphaBitch Bree and despises everything that she does. Lampshaded:-->'''Kitty:''' That girl is a ''vile'' human being *{{beat}}* and yes, I know that's saying something coming from me.** Also, even when she was at her absolute worst in Season 4, it was clear that Marley getting physically hurt was never part of her plan. She's as horrified as anyone when Marley collapses.* EvilIsPetty* {{Expy}}: Blonde, bitchy cheerio - just like Quinn, particularly from Season 1. Notably, however, she has a lot more common sense than Quinn tends to exhibit and actually ends up being the voice of reason for several other members once she TookALevelInKindness.-->'''Sue''': She's like a young Quinn Fabray except she's not pregnant, manic-depressive, or in and out of a wheelchair.* {{Fan}}: In-universe, she claims to be one of Quinn.* TheFundamentalist: Remember Quinn's religious fervor from Season 1? Well, Kitty makes that look tame. The girl clearly dove head first off the religious deep end some time before her introduction. The worst part is she seems to regard religion [[ItsAllAboutMe as just another way to get what she wants.]]-->'''Kitty''': Who the hell is Patty Simcox? I don't understand, I prayed ''really hard'' about this!* GreenEyedMonster: Is visibly jealous that Marley gets a lot of attention from both Jake and Ryder, and seems convinced that Marley is doing it to hurt her.* HeelFaceTurn: Towards the end of season 4, she's changed a lot from what we see early in the season. * HeelRealization: As soon as Marley passes out on the stage and Santana tells her that it's her fault, she has a slight nonverbal one.** She finally reveals everything to Marley and apologizes during the episode "Shooting Stars". Having your life put in danger because of a potential shooter at school really put things into perspective.* ItsAllAboutMe* {{Jerkass}}: Was one of the most despicable character of the show for a while, until CharacterDevelopment hits her, making her more a...** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Don't be mistaken: she's still a bitch most of the time. But she realized that what she did to Marley was wrong, confessed and apologized to her, and showed that she cares about the other members of ''New Directions'' (such as the time she decided to escort Unique home because she was bullied, and when she went behind Artie's back in order to make sure he would pursue his dream).* KarmaHoudini: She cons Marley into developing an eating disorder, causing her to collapse on stage from severe hunger. She suffers no comeuppance for this whatsoever. In fact, Santana is the only one to even have a vague suspicion that Kitty did anything wrong and [[CassandraTruth no one believes her.]] This is rather striking considering that both Quinn and Santana, the previous [[AlphaBitch alpha bitches]], both suffered bouts of LaserGuidedKarma [[note]] Quinn's pregnancy and Santana being outed to the public [[/note]] for decidedly less serious offenses.** Subverted in the fact that New Directions, a club she has come to enjoy and care about greatly, comes in 2nd in Nationals and is subsequently shut down by Sue. Then her boyfriend, who she risked any chance at keeping her social life intact by dating, dumps her as he heads off to New York and she is soon forgotten by him and the other New Directions alumni. This is followed by Sue forcibly transferring Unique, Marley, Jake, and Ryder to different schools, leaving her alone and friendless.* KickTheDog: With Marley being the dog she kicks with passion. Although, she mellowed out of this halfway the 4th season.* LonelyAtTheTop / IJustWantToHaveFriends:** [[InvokedTrope Claims this]] when inviting the New Directions to a sleepover, but it's pretty clear that [[SubvertedTrope it's just part of a plan to manipulate Marley.]]** Double-subverted later on: as her character matures, she came to really like her friends in the Glee club and loved dancing and singing. She actually feel miserable during season 6, when it is revealed that everyone pretty much forgot about her and she feels she was treated poorly (especially by Artie, who dumped her). She also doesn't trust Rachel, who she sees as an egoistic and selfish girl who she is sure will bail as soon as a better opportunity than the Glee club shows itself, and doesn't want to come back initially because she doesn't want her heart to be broken again.* LyingFingerCross: She does this in "Girls (and Boys) on Film" when Marley asks her to swear to keep what she's about to tell her a secret.* MeaningfulName: [[SarcasmMode Obviously, she's the picture of chastity and wholesomeness.]]* MsFanservice: Becomes the token provider of MaleGaze upon Quinn (who even encouraged her to be this), Santana, and eventually Brittany's graduation.* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Marley collapses and has to be dragged backstage, Kitty has a non-verbal version of this reaction.* NeverMyFault: Completely fails to recognize her own role in ruining her relationship with Jake, choosing instead to blame Marley.* TheNicknamer: Sue taught her that well.* OnlyOneName: For various episodes, she was just Kitty, until it was casually mentioned at the end of "The Role You Were Born to Play".* PetTheDog: ** In "Sadie Hawkins", she shamelessly praises Puck's screenplay. Granted, she probably just did it because she wanted Puck to like her, but it's still the only scene that makes her seem like a human being rather than the mean girl she's supposed to be.** Her apology to Marley in "Girls (and Boys) on Film" sort of qualifies. In her own unique AlphaBitch style, she did appear to be expressing genuine regret.** After Unique has a frightening experience with a group of female bullies, Kitty joins Ryder, Marley and Jake in offering to walk her between classes, and calls her a "friend".* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Unlike Quinn, she seems rather racist and transphobic at first glance.* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 5.* PunnyName: Perhaps unintentional, but Kitty Wilde ->[[TheWildcats Wildcat]]?* RapeAsBackstory: "Lights Out" reveals that she was molested by an old friend's older brother at a sleepover. This in turn lead to an AlternateCharacterInterpretation that Kitty was gay, but the trauma caused her to stay in the closet.* SecretRelationship: With Artie, of all people, in "Love, Love, Love" -- it doesn't stay secret for long.* ShesGotLegs: And in "Sadie Hawkins", Puck can't help but notice.* ShipTease: With Jake during the "Everybody Talks" performance in "The Role You Were Born to Play", and Ryder in "Lights Out", before she "officially, publicly, shockingly" hooks up with Artie.* TheSociopath: Arguably. She seems to be capable of empathy and regret, just never seems to actually show any. Has had maybe one or two sympathetic moments throughout the entire season. Has been truly nice to someone (as in, without ulterior motives) exactly twice (the first two PetTheDog moments listed above) in the first 75% of the season. Finally began being more sympathetic later though.* StrawmanPolitical: ''Anviliciously'' so. * TokenEvilTeammate: Her reason for joining New Directions in the first place? To keep a close eye on Jake, and screwing with Marley. CharacterDevelopment kicks in after a while.* TookALevelInKindness: She's certainly not as extremely evil as she was at first. At one point, she defends Unique and classes her as a "friend" when learning of how she was harassed by a group of girls, while earlier in the season she herself was very dismissive of Unique and her identity.* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Villanous example: Her need to spite Marley ultimately results in New Directions being disqualified from Sectionals. Note that she's only "unwitting" in the sense that she neither predicted nor intended that particular outcome. She knew fully well what she was doing.* WhatWouldXDo: Her motto is "What would Quinn Fabray do?", though she seems to have a limited grasp of the answer to that question.* YouAreInCommandNow: Becomes the team captain of New Directions upon rejoining them in Season 6.[[/folder]]